How Bossing People Around Backfires

Ever notice how when someone tells you what to do you feel less like doing it? There's an actual term for the feeling of bossiness resentment: psychological reactance, a phenomena common to toddlers, teenagers, and other people who don't like to be told what to do.

When stakeholders needed checkpoints, Sherman writes that "my mind wanted to take a break." He admits that "they may have been on the right path," but he was against it mentally—their changes were "a drag." Motivation lagging.